«'NA-A,AAJU'VV^> 'I r ^ b \ W Y < M)filef'l'l% •'"'SI '^tCRATER LAKENAT.PARK ' '*'^J?- ~ ' ■ Salt Lake Cijy OA^J»tSi im*orlal fiSjlT',. \0..1dfield ■> SOUTHERN PACIFIC UNION PACIFIC OREGON SHORT LINE OREGON R. R. & NAV.CO, OREGON Si. WASHINGTON SUNSET ROUTE OU are won by this one wonder of a thousand ^A wonders. '^$f Hot water. f ^ Hot mud. ^S Not by the pailful- no Jack and Jill load ; but a river of hot water and a sea of nice, clean, smooth, hot mud. They do many things. PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS ^'Take it away,'' cries the doctor, and they take away first one crutch and then the other and make firewood of them. PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS They take away that tired feeling and leave in its place that hungry feeling. They take away the blues and leave a rosy complexion. Eheumatism is a long word, but jthese hot springs make short work of it. At Paso Eobles is a big, white house. Mostly it is of marble, tile and metal. In the old days, and old nights, too, if they were moonlit, the young ladies of the Middle Ages, or any other ages, would have said: PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS ^'What a lovely, lovely castle. I won- der what Sir Knight lives there T' Well, it is good to look at ; good to be in. A river, two million gallons a day, of hot water flows through it. Clean, joyful people come out of it. It is just a bath- house you see, the nic ;st one in America. Just a bath-house — and in all ages the greatest comfort, the finest luxury, has PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS been a bath. Ask any old Roman; ask any old Greek. It was water Moses asked of the rock. No nation that did not bathe freely left any mark on the world — unless. they were finger-marks that people who came later had to rub out. PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS This bath-house is in the forest of oaks with a covered way to the home-like hotel. There is nothing in Europe any better, and there is no water in Europe any better. Long words of six and seven syllables tell the ways it has, the whys and where- fores, of making you over. But chiefly they can be reduced to water, hot water, and some mud — hot mud. They are unequaled anywhere in the world. Electric baths, vapor baths, solar baths, hot air baths, ice pack baths, tub baths, plunge baths — but always PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS baths and the river of hot health-giving water that flows through marble halls. I talked with one friend about this 10 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS primer. He said, ' ' Make it serious, make it solemn — don^t try to be fimny. Sick people can't see jokes (even if they 11 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS should be jokes yon make) and yon won't do any good.'' Sick people don't want to langhl Sure they do. You can't help but laugh if you go to Paso Eobles. Why not? That is part of the cure. You may not laugh now — but you will after you have been there, and he laughs best who laughs last. And there is no need of being serious over any trouble you can be cured of. The hot springs sympathy at Paso Eobles is cheerful, helpful sympathy. The man who told me to write this primer said to be sure to put in some figures and such — said otherwise it 12 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS would not look like a hot springs book. So here they are, though it is better to know that Admiral Evans — Fighting 13 ~7r\ L u PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS Bob, good old Bob — after leading the biggest fleet of long cruising battleships the world ever saw through three zones, hot weather, cold weather, fair weather, stormy weather, was just about put out of action by an old foe, rheumatism, by the time he reached Magdalena Bay. So he left the fleet and set sail by boat and rail for Paso Eobles and was made so well that he rode through the Golden Gate on his flagship to the cheers of the greatest crowd ever on San Francisco hills. There are others, too — too numerous to mention. Write the doctor for testi- monials if you want to know what has happened — this book is looking forward and not much backward. There was one man these springs fixed up so he could realize his lifelong ambition and become governor of a great state. There was a California millionaire of many, 15 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS many millions, who added some years to his life by coming here — and so on. Eailroad presidents, book writers, maga- zine makers, publishers of great daily papers, generals of the army, have been here, sometimes two or three at a time, and have said and written nice things about this water and this mud. Why not? These are the greatest hot springs of our land, and Nature has kindly put them in a most charming mpf>^m ^msm"(&-s 16 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS place on a railroad midway between California's two great cities. The purple mountains of the Santa Lucia and the silver strip of a river, the Salinas, hem in these springs, the moun- tains, four thousand feet high, have a cloak of oak forest, and here and there tall pines and lesser trees and shrubs and many flowers. Trout streams dance 1 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS down these wood-walled aisles of narrow canons — deer are here, and quail and doves in countless thousands. There are long, winding drives and walks over mountain and vale. People throwing away their crutches, quite naturally change to horseback riding, which is an invigorating pastime. The plain to the east is a golden plain in summer and autumn, with yet more golden mountains of the inner Coast Range beyond, all made into a carpet of green with wild flower designs worked in by winter, during the rest of the year. Santa Ysabel, with its lake of hot water, its fine drives and herds of pure- bred kine, is but two miles away. San Miguel Mission is an hour's drive. Founded in 1797, and rich with relics of Spain, paintings and vestments, it has watched the pilgrims of a hundred years go by. 20 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS South, another hour^s ride, is a field of battle where Uncle Sam's troops and the militia engage in widespread ma- neuvers. At that time of the year the hotel looks like an army headquarters, though in all the motions of society, the emotions of the ill are cared for, their peace and quiet guarded. r PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS The air of Paso Robles is a tonic — a crisp, fresh, dry air, with the most brilliant atmosphere in all California. You say there is nothing the matter with you. You know you wear clothes and wash them and rinse them, and just by their mere touch feel cleaner and better when you put them on. But what do you do for that body of yours? You wash it superficially with about the same nice care you use in brushing your clothes. Bless me, you don't know what it is to be clean. You don't put your body on the wash- board, stew it and scrub it and change the water on it and rub it and rinse it inside and out. But you should. And at Paso Robles they will give you a thorough scrubbing if you don't want to do it yourself. 22 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS They have graduates from institutes there who have spent years learning how to separate the body from dirt — masseurs these, of the best kind, under the direc- tion of a skilled superintendent and a capable doctor. PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS Your body is the greatest of the earth ^s temples — you should have it cleaner than any other sanctuary — and you will be surprised to know how badly soiled it is after one of these Swedish rubbers gets hold of you. These hot springs will make it clean inside and out, wash away the dirt of years, and make you feel as fresh and new and clean and bright and sprightly as a new summer gown first put on in some rare day in June, after a thorough cleaning at these famous springs. More than dirt will go ; the weight of years will tumble from your shoulders — it will help, if not cure, a hurting con- science. You cannot be unhappy living in a refreshed body with a beautiful oak grove, mountains, streams, sparkling air and California sunshine roundabout. Your mind will be helped. Someone 24 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS said: ''I am an old man and have liad many troubles, most of which never happened." Paso Eobles will take away some of the troubles that did happen and all of those that did not. The whole system at Paso Robles tends to drive dull care into its hole and turn the hose in on it — hot water. PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS Oh, yes, about those figures — but a minute first while I tell you about the hotel where you stop. It is what you want — a great brick-walled home with 26 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS wide verandas large enough to drive in; lobby, so anyone can have a quiet corner ; fireplace, like our grandads had when they designed the fireplaces first and built the houses around them; parlors and writing rooms large enough ; a comfortable clubhouse separate from the main building, and all other con- veniences you would naturally expect. Naturally, the dining-room of such a place is in the hands of a genius — must be. He knows what to give ill people just arrived, what variety to those on the road to recovery, and how unusually much to those recovered, but just staying on for the pure joy of staying. The resident physician and manager is more than a doctor — eminent though he is in scientific ways. He is father to the flock; gives personal interest and sympathy and care. This may make him blush when — if ever — he reads it, but you want to know 27 2S PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS what manner of man you are to be put in charge of. I know him, and you will be glad to know him. He has able assistants. Speaking of figures, reminds me there is a pretty town of two thousand people adjoining the hotel, hot springs and park. It owns a well- equipped municipal bath-house. The springs are on the Eoad of a Thousand Wonders, and well or ill, you will enjoy a stay there. Every ticket gives a stopover without extra expense. Every day there are five trains each way between San Francisco and Los Angeles through Paso Robles, and six each way between Paso Robles and San Francisco. Stopping is just as easy. There are excursion rates from many points direct to Paso Robles Hot Springs. The springs are only a little way from the station. 29 PASO ROBLES HOT SPRINGS ON THE ROAD OF A THOUSAND WONDERS The Springs are on El Camino Real — the King's Highway — the path of the Franciscan friars of 1769 and later years. This old trail has now become the great highway through California, and the springs are the midway haven for the automobile parties. As to those figures — here they are: temperatures, analyses and so on. Con- fidentially, I don't really understand what they mean beyond the fact that the water is hot enough to make you clean and has enough stuff in it to drive almost any kind of a pain out of your body. P. S. — There is not room for the figures after all, so I guess you better write the medical director for analyses. He is a very scientific writer as well as a scientific M. D. 30 SOUTHF^N PACIFIC REPRESENTATIVES PASSENGER DEPARTMENT Chas. S. Fee, Passenger Traffic Manager..' : San Francisco, CaL Jas. Horsburgh, Jr., General Passenger Agent San Francisco, Cal. 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